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Webinar – QA’s Role in Unit Testing

A lot of our clients ask us what is the best way to get QA and test involved in unit testing. Since this is a topic with which many development teams struggle we thought this question was interesting enough to … More

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The Future of QA and Testing

I read an interesting statement from Marc Andreessen in an article from QZ . Andreessen says that soon there will be two kinds of jobs: jobs in which people tell computers what to do and jobs in which computers tell people what to do. While kind of agreeing with this statement I started to wonder where this would leave us, the people working in QA? More

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Mobile Network Performance Testing Webinar

With the increase in smart phone usage around the world, mobile network performance testing is gaining importance. Up to 60% of mobile failures are performance related  and Google found that a .5-1 second increase in page load time resulted in a 20% … More

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Agile Testing with Jared Richardson and Philip Lew – Webinar March 20 2013

We are happy to announce that March 20 at 10 AM EST we are holding an agile testing webinar with two veterans in the field: Jared Richardson and Philip Lew. Jared and Phil will discuss the changes needed for QA … More

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Mobile Testing Report – The 2013 State of Mobile Testing

XBOSoft Published its 2013 Mobile Testing Report From November 2012 to February 2013 we conducted a survey on the state of mobile testing. Our  objective was to collect data on how different QA organizations conduct mobile testing, and to analyze and … More

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Mobile Performance Testing – Testing the Server

We just did another webinar on mobile performance testing and this time we covered the server aspects of mobile performance testing. As mobile Internet usage becomes the norm and will soon surpass desktop Internet usage, how do you ensure that … More

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Mobile Performance Testing – Testing the Server Webinar

Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST Interested to learn about mobile performance testing? Performance is a major issue in mobile user satisfaction. Testing the performance of your mobile applications and using the results of these tests … More

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Top 10 Localization Defects

Localization testing is a necessary part of the development life cycle of any application with international aspirations.

With the economic down turn in many parts of the world, it often makes business sense to lower risk and sell an application in different language areas. However for us in QA delivering software in multiple languages creates another type of risk: the risk of localization defects.

In order to help testers that are new to localization testing (or for old hands that wants to refresh their memory) this post lists the 10 most common types of localization defects, explains their root causes and provides ideas to prevent them. More

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Mobile Server Performance Testing – Webinar – Mobile Performance – the Server

Mobile Performance Testing is important. Mobile internet usage will soon pass desktop internet usage. And Mobile commerce is growing fast: “According to a new study commissioned by Kelkoo and conducted by the Centre for Retail Research, European online shoppers are expected … More

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Should you use a Dedicated Mobile Testing Team?

The software industry is going mobile. Should you use a dedicated mobile testing team? The past years we have experienced a steep increase in the demand for mobile QA and mobile testing. While many QA and testing aspects are similar to … More

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